Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BROKER OF DREAMS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poet's Biography First Line: Bring not your dreams to me Last Line: There is no cure but sleeping. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares | ||||||||
BRING not your dreams to me -- Blown dust, and vapour, and the running stream -- Saying, "He, too, doth dream, Touched of the moon." Nay! wouldst thou vanish see Thy darling phantoms, Bring them then to me! For my hard business -- though so soft it seems -- Was ever dreams and dreams. And as some stern-eyed broker smiles disdain, Valuing at nought Her bosom's locket, with its little chain, Love's all that Love hath brought; So must I weigh and measure Thy fading treasure, Sighing to see it go As surely as the snow. For I have such sad knowledge of all things That shine like dew a little, all that sings And ends its song in weeping -- Such sowing and such reaping! -- There is no cure but sleeping. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS A BALLAD OF LONDON (TO H.W. MASSINGHAM) by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE AFTER THE WAR by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE WHAT OF THE DARKNESS?; TO THE HAPPY DEAD PEOPLE by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE |
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